Bennigan’s Files Chapter 7 – What happens to the franchisees?

We interrupt our regularly scheduled “How to research and buy a franchise” with this update …

Within the last week, two large restaurant franchise systems have declared bankruptcy, Bennigan’s and Steak & Ale. Most of the major news sites did a nice job covering the story – you can read about it here: 

Google News

Newsweek

 

There have even been some interesting/funny/shocking pictures to evolving from the news. Here’s one I found this morning:

The interesting fact is, most of the Bennigan’s restaurants remain open and operating. It’s just the franchisor that filed Chapter 7 and is liquidating all assets. A friend and I were discussing this and wondering what really happens to the franchisees, the real business owners. He sent me an article from BusinessWeek.com: (here’s a link to the full story) 

Franchisees definitely have some struggles ahead, but the future is not totally grim. In my opinion, the biggest challenge is not the fact that corporate is bankrupt, nope, I think it is the mindset of the consumer who has all but eliminated fast casual from their diets. 

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